Well, sweet cheeks, the sun won't become a planetary nebula. As a middle-aged star, the sun will actually shed its outer layers to form a planetary nebula, revealing its hot core known as a white dwarf. So, technically, the sun won't become a planetary nebula, it'll just pull off a fabulous costume change in the cosmic dance of the universe. Hope that clears things up for ya!
An average star like our sun will eventually become a red giant as it exhausts its nuclear fuel. After that, it will shed its outer layers to form a planetary nebula and leave behind a dense core called a white dwarf.
Earth's sun is currently a main sequence star which has a small mass. Eventually it will expand into Red Giant star once the core runs out of hydrogen and then helium gas. After the Red Giant phase, the star throws off its outer layers and then becomes a planetary nebula. A sun-like star will either become a white dwarf or black dwarf following the planetary nebula.
After the Sun leaves the main sequence (By running out of fuseable hydrogen) it will become an asymptotic red giant. After that, when it runs of of all fuel, stellar winds will blow away the Sun's envelope into a protoplanetary nebula (and eventually a planetary nebula) with a white dwarf in the middle, which will slowly cool to background temperature over ten quadrillion years.
The next stage in the life of the sun is the red giant phase, where it will expand and become much larger. Eventually, the sun will shed its outer layers and form a planetary nebula, leaving behind a remnant core known as a white dwarf.
Scientists estimate that the sun will run out of fuel and expand into a red giant in about 5 billion years. After this stage, it will shed its outer layers and eventually become a white dwarf, leaving behind a planetary nebula.
An average star like our sun will eventually become a red giant as it exhausts its nuclear fuel. After that, it will shed its outer layers to form a planetary nebula and leave behind a dense core called a white dwarf.
A star like our sun will shed a planetary nebula after its 'death'
Earth's sun is currently a main sequence star which has a small mass. Eventually it will expand into Red Giant star once the core runs out of hydrogen and then helium gas. After the Red Giant phase, the star throws off its outer layers and then becomes a planetary nebula. A sun-like star will either become a white dwarf or black dwarf following the planetary nebula.
After the Sun leaves the main sequence (By running out of fuseable hydrogen) it will become an asymptotic red giant. After that, when it runs of of all fuel, stellar winds will blow away the Sun's envelope into a protoplanetary nebula (and eventually a planetary nebula) with a white dwarf in the middle, which will slowly cool to background temperature over ten quadrillion years.
The next stage in the life of the sun is the red giant phase, where it will expand and become much larger. Eventually, the sun will shed its outer layers and form a planetary nebula, leaving behind a remnant core known as a white dwarf.
As the Sun uses up its supply of hydrogen over billions of years, it will begin to expand into a red giant star. Eventually the star will suffer a catastrophic collapse and throw off mass to form a planetary nebula, and become a small white dwarf star near the center.
The Sun will eventually end up as a white dwarf, a dense, Earth-sized remnant of a star. This will happen after it exhausts its nuclear fuel and sheds its outer layers into space, forming a planetary nebula.
Scientists estimate that the sun will run out of fuel and expand into a red giant in about 5 billion years. After this stage, it will shed its outer layers and eventually become a white dwarf, leaving behind a planetary nebula.
As the sun ages, it will expand into a red giant, engulfing the inner planets of our solar system, including Earth. Eventually, it will shed its outer layers and become a planetary nebula, leaving behind a dense core called a white dwarf. The white dwarf will gradually cool over billions of years, eventually fading into a black dwarf.
Oh, sure. The Sun is a Supernova. That's why we're all sitting here burning to death.
It will collapse and become a white dwarf.
The sun will eventually exhaust its nuclear fuel and swell into a red giant, engulfing the inner planets, including Earth. It will then shed its outer layers to form a planetary nebula, leaving behind a slowly cooling remnant called a white dwarf.